Using a movieclip symbol as a button AS 2.0

Juggling between AS 2.0 and 3.0 has me a bit perplexed. I
need to have a movie clip on the stage acting like a button, when
you rollover it the mc would be like in the over state of a button.
Finally when you roll out the mc will play the over state which I
will reverse the frames.
Can someone show me the correct actionscript for this ?
I'm confused as I tried this using actionscript for buttons
and it is not working. I also know the this_root or _parent comes
into play here.

mentlity,
> place inside first frame of main timeline
>
> new_mc.onRollOver = function()
> {
> _root.new_mc.gotoAndPlay("rollover")
You might want to consider replaying _root with another
object
reference. There are people who deem _root "evil" (I'm not
one of them),
and the reason for that is because the term changes its
meaning depending on
context. In other words, _root may not always mean what you
think it means.
If a stand-alone SWF, it means the main timeline, but if you
ever use
another SWF to load this one into it, then _root will refer
to the *other*
SWF's main timeline, which may not have a movie clip in it
with the instance
name new_mc.
My suggestion here would be to use the keyword "this":
new_mc.onRollOver = function() {
this.gotoAndPlay("rollover")
See how neat that is? In AS2, the point of view of that
function
belongs to new_mc, because the function is associated with
new_mc's
onRollOver event. In AS3, the point of view would belong to
the keyframe in
which the code appears.
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/dpsFoundationFlashCS4
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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